If you could start over and go back to school, what program would you take?

I am exploring going back to school as a mature student and am conflicted on what to take.

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I would study finance. I'm in the technical side of an investment fund and the finance guys make way more and do less and also less complicated work.

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Problem is success in finance is hard to get into when already mature. You have to plan for it and study it young to end up somewhere with worth it money.

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Information technology, I would also pay attention in high school so I can get a scholarship and not have as much in school loans

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lol tmi but you asked

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I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts, but if I could go back I would’ve went into Business instead.

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I would still take computer science. It made my career possible

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I would have gotten a JD MBA rather than just an MBA.

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Why? Would you have gone to be a lawyer or worked in legal and compliance?

Or what would you have done with the JD that guy can't do now with just an MBA?

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Applied Math

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I wish I was smart enough for this, I would go this route too

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Anything in STEM, I personally see a lot of jobs that require engineering or data science backgrounds. When I was younger, I would have pursued my Astrophysics or Plasma Physics degree, but I never finished college and ended up getting a gig doing IT Project Management, and went down that path. I don’t regret it, but Covid has screwed up everything, and I lost my consulting client of 15 years. Now, I wish I had the educational background to pivot into a scientific or research career. I interviewed for several positions I was well qualified for at Lawrence Livermore Lab, and probably wasn’t offered a role due to the lack of specific education or experience in a lab/scientific setting. I keep trying though, I currently have 3 apps with hiring managers at NASA. So you never know. Also, if you just need to gain the knowledge, OpenCourseWare MIT has everything you need. Most of the time, I have found that as long as you know what you’re talking about, a degree isn’t always necessary. I have gotten by for 30 years without one.

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If I didn’t have to worry about money I’d probably go into hospitality or agricultural science. Cornell has good programs for either of these. Alas, I was born middle class so I got an accounting major at a state school and went into finance

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Accounting *degree

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Got a degree in electrical engineering. Great choice. Maybe would have gotten a degree in computer science, or computer engineering. If you want to live in certain areas, you could go chemical engineering or petroleum engineering.

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Not hypothetical for me. I went back to school while working at Fidelity because I regretted the options available to me in Finance. I got a degree in Computer Science and my life is so much better for it. Whatever you do, you need to enjoy the work.

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Interior design or food science

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Computer science I would like to study . I did not get chance to study it but with ChatGPT I m fulfilling my dream however small ways I can . Other is Mathematics , if not then Finance , if not then Physics . I want to be somehow connected to maths.

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Perhaps something in medicine.

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I'd become a surgeon.

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Electrical engineering

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Accounting

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Information Security hands down, the market is flush with this career path

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I would take a program related to medical field.

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Me I just would have taken my education much more seriously

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